Apollo GraphQL Lands $130 Million Series D

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Apollo GraphQL&comma; a pioneer in the use of open source and commercial GraphQL API technologies&comma; has landed a &dollar;130 million Series D funding round led by New York-based venture capital firm Insight Partners with participation from existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz&comma; Matrix Partners&comma; and Trinity Ventures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Additional investors Next47 and Hatim Shafique&comma; Chief Customer Officer at DataBricks&comma; also participated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Leveraging the explosive GraphQL movement&comma; Apollo is pioneering the Graph as an essential new layer in the tech stack that serves as a unified representation of an organization’s services&comma; data&comma; and digital capabilities&period; The Graph empowers developers to deliver better experiences&comma; faster&semi; isolates service complexity&semi; and serves as a single place for application development collaboration&comma; without coupling&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The desire for the Graph is evident in Apollo’s rapid growth&comma; with over 30&percnt; of Fortune 500 companies already using Apollo&period; Today&comma; Apollo processes over 6 billion queries daily on its platform and enterprise annual recurring revenue &lpar;ARR&rpar; nearly tripled over the last 12 months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Customers include Walmart&comma; Expedia&comma; Glassdoor&comma; Audi&comma; and PayPal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Graph is a developer-driven movement to change how companies build software&comma; and Apollo is leading in supporting application developers&comma; the primary value creators in software&comma;” says Geoff Schmidt&comma; cofounder and CEO of Apollo GraphQL&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Every company will need a graph strategy to keep pace in the digital era the same way they need a cloud strategy&period; This round is a win for all application developers&comma; who can expect increased support for our open source community&comma; as well as our forward-looking customers&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Under Apollo’s leadership&comma; the Graph has the potential to reshape the world economy as a universal aggregator&period; Estimates are that there are already millions of GraphQL developers&comma; and the number has been growing exponentially&comma;” said Lonne Jaffe&comma; Insight Partners&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Embracing the Graph is one of those key technology strategy decisions that will have huge implications for a company’s future competitiveness&comma; like adopting the public cloud or leveraging data to make predictions&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Apollo has brought the revolutionary technology of GraphQL to the enterprise through its commitment to the open source community and making the Graph a foundational pillar to the tech stack&comma;” said David George&comma; general partner at Andreessen Horowitz&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Apollo’s mission and growth serves as a force multiplier for developers everywhere to have a bigger impact and change the way companies build software&period; It’s a different way of thinking about how to build applications that developers are adopting at a rapid pace&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apollo’s Graph Platform enables organizations to build and scale a graph safely&comma; and overcome the complexity of application development&period; That complexity stifles innovation and holds companies back from delivering products at velocity&period; With the Graph&comma; companies can drive unfair advantage&comma; and accelerate product velocity and platform innovation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Using Apollo’s Graph&comma; Expedia rebuilt its entire trips experience three times faster than our old approach&period; Adding new trip features to all our apps now takes days rather than months&comma;” said Rick Fast&comma; Vice President of Engineering at Expedia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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